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Hebrews 12:17

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For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind in his father, though he sought it diligently with tears.

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Hebrews 12:17 in other translations

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

Hebrews 12:17 · World English Bible

Hebrews 12:17 in context

  1. 15looking carefully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;
  2. 16lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
  3. 17For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind in his father, though he sought it diligently with tears.
  4. 18For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
  5. 19and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them;